Fight against waste, energy efficiency, sustainable mobility and organization of work… Given the measures included in the framework of the energy sobriety plan presented this Thursday by the Government, the reactions of the companies seem mixed. But at this stage, it is above all the industrial sector that is concerned.
Bruno Grandjean, CEO of Redex, a company that supplies high-tech equipment, expressed his anger at BFM Business: “It is a kind of punishment that we inflict on ourselves. (…) When we look for the causes behind (this plan), it is still a European fiasco. Because this problem does not exist in Asia or America, unlike the oil crisis that affected everyone in the 1970s. It is a uniquely European problem and it will have cataclysmic effects on the industry. European”.
Similar reaction from Uniden, which accounts for 70% of industrial energy consumption. For its president, Nicolás Warren, the Government is too optimistic: “The idea (of this plan) is to say that by making the maximum effort in everything else, in the tertiary sector in particular, we will preserve the industry, the production capacity. finally there are problems we are going to reach the definitive measures, the measures of shedding and rationing… But the idea is that the industry continues turning, producing. However, there are already workshops that are slowing down, ”he warned.
Entrepreneurs welcome the absence of binding measures
On the employer side, we are concerned about unforeseen load shedding. Because if temporary power cuts do not appear in the government plan, they are not excluded for that reason: “You have to give enough advance notice,” called Jean-Eudes du Mesnil of the Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CPME).
However, “it is a plan that essentially consists of recommendations and incentives. This approach seems relevant to us. In principle, we are much more in favor of appealing to responsibility than of binding measures,” he pointed out in West of France. Finally, the Medef is quite optimistic. Like the CPME, the employers’ organization welcomed a plan that contained essentially recommendations and not obligations.
Source: BFM TV
